Galaxy Training Academy 2025
Date: 12 - 16 May 2025
The Galaxy Training Academy is a self-paced online training event for beginners and advanced learners who want to improve their Galaxy data analysis skills.
Over the course of one week, we offer a diverse selection of learning track for you.
Keywords: assembly, galaxy-interface, introduction, microbiome, proteomics, single-cell, statistics, variant-analysis
Learning objectives:
- Assess long reads FASTQ quality using Nanoplot and PycoQC
- Assess short reads FASTQ quality using FASTQE 🧬😎 and FastQC
- Become comfortable converting text-based files in a variety of ways.
- Connect different parts of the Research Object using identifiers
- Construct an RO-Crate by hand using JSON
- Describe each part of the Research Object
- Explain what is a BAM file and what it contains
- Familiarize yourself with data manipulation tools in Galaxy
- Familiarize yourself with the basics of Galaxy
- Gain understanding on navigating and manipulating histories
- Generate a workflow test using Planemo
- Learn about how Galaxy handles NGS data using Illumina data derived from patients infected with SARS-CoV-2
- Learn basic JSON-LD to create FAIR metadata
- Learn how histories work
- Learn how to create a workflow
- Learn how to extract and run a workflow
- Learn how to obtain data from external sources
- Learn how to run tools
- Learn how to share a history
- Learn how to share your work
- Learn how to upload a file
- Learn how to use a tool
- Learn how to view histories
- Learn how to view results
- Perform basic text manipulation tasks in Galaxy
- Perform quality correction with Cutadapt (short reads)
- Process single-end and paired-end data
- Reason about the expected outcome of tools
- Run a tool to map reads to a reference genome
- Summarise quality metrics MultiQC
- Understand and master dataset collections
- Understand how testing can be automated with GitHub Actions
- Understand most common types of NGS-related datatypes
- Use genome browser to understand your data
Organizer: Armin Dadras (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/dadrasarmin/), Delphine Lariviere (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/delphine-l/), Diana Chiang Jurado (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/dianichj/), Natalie Whitaker-Allen (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/natalie-wa/), Saskia Hiltemann (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/shiltemann/), Scott Cain (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/scottcain/), Teresa Müller (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/teresa-m/)
Event types:
- Workshops and courses
Sponsors: ABRomics, ELIXIR Europe, Institut Français de Bioinformatique, Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg, de.NBI
Scientific topics: Mapping
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